Bowling Green State University Athletics
2025 Football Roster
May, Baron

Jersey Number 8
Baron May
- Position:
- Quarterback
- Height:
- 6-0
- Weight:
- 195
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- New Philadelphia, Ohio
- High School:
- New Philadelphia HS
- Prev School:
- East Tennessee State
Bio
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Bowling Green |
Years of Eligibility Remaining Including 2025: 1
2024 | Junior
- Appeared in one of BGSU's games
- Threw a 43-yard touchdown pass to Malcolm Johnson Jr. on a fake punt in the 68 Ventures Bowl against Arkansas State
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East Tennessee State |
Johnson City, Tenn. |
• Spent the 2022 and 2023 seasons at DII East Tennessee State
• Appeared in nine career games at ETSU
• Rushed for 236 yards and two touchdowns during ETSU career
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Eastern Michigan |
Ypsilanti, Mich. |
• Spent the 2020 and 2021 seasons at Eastern Michigan
• Did not appear in any games
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 New Philadelphia High School |
New Philadelphia, Ohio |
• Attended New Philadelphia High School and played under Head Coach Matt Dennison as a Quaker
• Listed as a three-star recruit by 247Sports and ESPN
• Is the school’s all-time leader in passing yards, passing touchdowns, all-purpose yards and touchdowns responsible for
• Was a finalist for Ohio’s Mr. Football in 2019
• Selected Ohio Division III co-Offensive Player of the Year while garnering first team All-Ohio accolades
• Passed for more than 2,000 yards and 24 touchdowns and collected 775 rush yards and nine more scores in nine and a half games as a senior
• Helped the program clinch only its second home playoff game in school history in 2019
• With a final record of 10-2, the Quakers became only the fifth team in school history to win 10 games, and only the second team to win a playoff game
• Was the first New Philadelphia player to pass and rush for at least 1,000 yards in the same season when he did it as a sophomore in 2017
• Shattered the career passing yards mark by throwing for 6,013 yards
• Is the only New Philadelphia player to ever pass for more than 2,000 yards in a season, which he did with 2,029 yards in 2018
• Has the two best single-season passing marks in school history with the 1,984 yards he threw for as a senior
• Rushed for 2,662 yards in four seasons
• Also played baseball
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 Personal |
• Son of Paul and Heather May
• Has a brother, Dugan
• Graduated from ETSU with a degree in Finance
BG Football Postgame 9.20
Saturday, September 20
Week 3 Cinematic Football Highlight vs. Liberty (2025)
Tuesday, September 16
BG Football Press Conference 9.15
Monday, September 15
BG Football Postgame 9.13 vs Liberty
Sunday, September 14